In the footsteps of Churchill / Richard Holmes.
TITLE:
In the footsteps of Churchill / Richard Holmes.
Publication Date:
2005
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books,
Physical Description:
351 p. , [24] p. of plates : ill.
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Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-343) and index.
Summary:
Historian Richard Holmes uses new material to investigate the influences that shaped the man: his schooldays, his flamboyant father, Randolph, and his attractive American mother, Jennie. Holmes argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to commit catastrophic blunders. The recklessness that made him a hero when he was a young correspondent during the Boer War, for example, cost thousands of Allied lives during his planning of the Gallipoli campaign in 1915, and may also have contributed to the fall of Singapore in 1942.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780465030828
